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My Firefox works fine, but I have Firefox Setup 3.5.1 (8MB) on my desktop - can I remove it from my desktop?

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My Firefox is working fine. However, I would like to clean up my desktop. I have Firefox Setup 3.5.1 (~8MB) on my desktop. Can I remove it from my desktop without losing any of my Firefox capabilities?

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Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.5.21022; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)

My Firefox is working fine. However, I would like to clean up my desktop. I have Firefox Setup 3.5.1 (~8MB) on my desktop. Can I remove it from my desktop without losing any of my Firefox capabilities? == User Agent == Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.5.21022; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)

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You can safely delete the setup file. Once Firefox is installed, the setup file is no longer used.

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You can safely delete the setup file. Once Firefox is installed, the setup file is no longer used.